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Essential Classics with Suzy Klein: Red from Bliss's Colour Symphony, Harriet Walter, Rousseau in Staffordshire

Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music, presented by Suzy Klein.

Suzy Klein with Essential Classics - the best in classical music.

0930 Your ideas for companion pieces on the Essential Classics playlist.

1010 Musical Time Travellers 鈥� stories behind the music making of the British Isles.

1050 Cultural inspirations from our guest of the week, the actress Dame Harriet Walter.

1110 Essential Classics pays tribute to some of the great musicians who died in 2019.

1130 Slow Moment - time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.

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Tue 31 Dec 2019 09:00
大象传媒 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Joseph Haydn

    La vera costanza (Overture)

    Orchestra: Vienna Haydn Sinfonietta. Conductor: Manfred Huss.
    • BIS.

  • David Popper

    5 Spanish dances Op.54 (Serenade)

    Performer: Jean鈥怗uihen Queyras. Performer: Alexandre Tharaud.
    • Complices.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 5.

  • Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

    Stabat Mater

    Choir: Tallis Scholars. Director: Peter Phillips.
    • GIMELL.

  • Jacques Ibert

    Three Short Pieces

    Ensemble: Ensemble Wien-Berlin.
    • Sony.

  • Arthur Bliss

    A Colour Symphony (2nd mvt, Red)

    Orchestra: Orchestra of Opera North. Conductor: David Lloyd-Jones.
    • Bliss A Colour Symphony (A)/ Adam Zero.
    • NAXOS.
    • 2.

  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Oboe d'amore Concerto in E minor, TWV.51:e2

    Performer: Albrecht Mayer. Orchestra: Berlin Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Rainer Kussmaul.
    • EMI.

  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Barcarolle Op.108

    Performer: Cristina Ortiz. Ensemble: Fine Arts Quartet.
    • NAXOS.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Romance no.1 in G major Op.40

    Performer: James Ehnes. Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Manze.
    • ONYX.

  • Amy Beach

    2 Songs Op.100 for soprano and piano trio: i. A Mirage. ii. Stella Viatoris

    Singer: Emma Kirkby. Ensemble: Romantic Chamber Group of London.
    • Chanson d'amour.
    • BIS.
    • 3-4.

  • Leos Jan谩膷ek

    The Cunning Little Vixen - Suite: Movement II

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.
    • Decca.

  • Giovanni Gabrieli

    Sonata pian' e forte

    Ensemble: His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts. Director: Peter Bassano.
    • ASV.

  • Miles Davis

    Blue in Green arr McLaughlin for 2 pianos

    Performer: Katia Lab猫que. Performer: Marielle Lab猫que. Music Arranger: John McLaughlin.
    • Love of colours: Katia & Marielle Labeque.
    • Sony.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Junge Liebe I, Op 63 No 5

    Performer: Graham Johnson. Singer: Angelika Kirchschlager.
    • Brahms: The Complete Songs, Vol. 1, Angelika Kirschschlager.
    • Hyperion.
    • 14.

  • Franz Schubert

    Piano Sonata in A major D.959 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Leif Ove Andsnes.
    • Schubert: Late Piano Sonatas.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 7.

  • Joan Trimble

    Sonatina for two pianos

    Performer: Una Hunt. Performer: Roy Holmes.
    • Joan Trimble: Songs & Music for Two Pianos.
    • Marco Polo.
    • 7-9.

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    The Age of Gold, Op. 22: IV. Dance

    Orchestra: Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme J盲rvi.
    • DG.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Fugue in G major 'A la gigue', BWV.577

    Performer: Peter Hurford.
    • J.S. Bach Toccata and Fugue in D minor.
    • HMV Classics.
    • 4.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Zadok the Priest

    Choir: Choir of King鈥檚 College, Cambridge. Ensemble: Academy of Ancient Music. Conductor: Stephen Cleobury.
    • Glorious Majesty.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 1.

  • Jean Sibelius

    Finlandia, Op 26

    Orchestra: Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Esa鈥怭ekka Salonen.
    • Sibelius: Finlandia/En Saga etc: Esa-Pekka Salonen.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 1.

  • Osvaldo Golijov

    Lullaby and Doina

    Performer: Tara Helen O'Connor. Performer: Todd Palmer. Performer: Mark Dresser. Ensemble: St. Lawrence String Quartet.
    • Osvaldo Golijov: Yiddishbbuk.
    • EMI.
    • 3-5.

  • Henry Purcell

    Curtain Tune (Timon of Athens)

    Ensemble: The Purcell Quartet.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Samuel Barber

    Adagio for Strings

    Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Jukka鈥怭ekka Saraste.
    • Barber: Cello concerto/sonata/Adagio: SCO/Jukka-Pekka Saraste.
    • Virgin Classics.
    • 7.

  • Francisco Correa de Arauxo

    Batalla de Morales

    Ensemble: Hesp猫rion XXI. Director: Jordi Savall.
    • ALIA VOX.

  • Claude Debussy

    Mazurka

    Performer: Noriko Ogawa.
    • Debussy: Suite Bergamasque; Pour le Piano etc..
    • BIS.
    • 11.

  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Scherzo capriccioso Op.66

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Istv谩n Kert茅sz.
    • Decca.

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